The Exigent Duality2015-03-31T08:02:46-05:00Michael "Sniper" PonickiEllyn "Angel" Ponickiurn:uuid:e851fa9e-bb4d-43ef-b478-bfceefa81b04Watch out for this one (Sniper)urn:uuid:14a5395c-18bc-4fac-8ca6-501bb7e1c5e82015-03-31T08:02:46-05:00I've noticed a trend recently of "progressive liberals" using the expression "the right side of history" in arguments. A good example is <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2015/03/30/subaru-comes-out-on-the-right-side-of-history-stands-up-against/">this</a>Yup (Sniper)urn:uuid:12dc5ca2-170e-4860-b701-b2bf7c2b656a2015-03-30T19:36:12-05:00Couldn't have said it any better myself; government in a nutshell:<br><br>
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"There are always some people in a society who are more ready than others to bully, steal and make jackasses of themselves.Kickbacks (Sniper)urn:uuid:a2dae1a6-e1f0-431a-86dd-dcaf17ad4e9d2015-03-30T10:40:03-05:00A coworker asked me about whether Minnesota United's new MLS team will be getting some "Communist-style kickbacks" to fund their new stadium. In reply, I relayed a story to him about Henri and I reading a book about the Statue of Liberty a few nights ago,Montessori teachers (Sniper)urn:uuid:e1315909-1368-4215-bbdf-f3f036cbe87f2015-03-30T07:57:43-05:00I've yet to meet a Montessori teacher that wasn't extremely intellectual. My wife and I had conferences for my daughter last week, and one of my daughter's teachers asked, "did your daughter crawl when she was a baby?"<br><br>
Somewhat astonished, my wDeveloping a connection to reality (Sniper)urn:uuid:628711c1-536d-4fa5-8745-ceb0584ad7062015-03-26T12:02:10-05:00<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-25/how-education-system-destroys-social-networks">This</a> is one of the best articles I've read in a long time. I've been saying that same thing on this blog, and in other places-- get kids involved with <i>Am I the only one? (Sniper)urn:uuid:bf87061c-5f9b-4118-b4f3-828af7141aef2015-03-20T19:35:03-05:00All of the "hooray, I can't <i>wait</i> for 'self-driving' cars!" articles are driving me nuts. "Ooh, it'll save so many lifes!" Yeah-- so would prohibiting anyone from leaving their homes.<br><br>
The politicians obviously want this because then they Awkward (Sniper)urn:uuid:56508186-9f2e-49d4-9168-44f753d36cda2015-03-19T19:55:41-05:00The comments to <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-19/michelle-obama-meets-japans-emperor-awkwardness-ensues">this</a> article made my entire night. Beyond that, "Oh, but Hopeychange and his wife, they're so smart, and so worldly!" Uh-huh-- thBrain dead society (Sniper)urn:uuid:ffc7b8ef-6a35-4765-8e7b-9d3076bb19cd2015-03-18T07:53:53-05:00I know <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-17/its-official-americans-r-stoopid">these</a> "here is an eighth grade exam from the early 20th/19th century" examples are almost cliche by now, since there are so many such samples illustrating how pBonus challenge (Sniper)urn:uuid:b9809c4b-f2f4-4e79-8c05-082dae172ab82015-03-16T11:52:24-05:00Challenge for my readers: try to find a sentence on the web that has the term "3DO" in it, and that doesn't <i>also</i> contain a disparaging remark about the platform. Here are some actual, sample disparaging remarks, plucked straight from the web, to heWho to blame (Sniper)urn:uuid:cf5e7818-0fa9-4339-b57e-cb3f9407ad022015-03-15T16:07:59-05:00A-hah, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Heineman">the person</a> to blame for the horrible 3DO Doom port! And the second "transgendered" game developer I've read about on Wikipedia in two days (the first being Greg/Alexis Jansen, discussed bAmazing parallels (Sniper)urn:uuid:ca84747b-2961-4b3b-8d69-43f9f6439ce82015-03-15T08:46:29-05:00Holy shit, was <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-14/25-statist-propaganda-phrases-and-how-rebut-them">this</a> written by me in my sleep? I don't recall writing it, yet I've made almost all of these points at various time on this very blog inAnalog (Sniper)urn:uuid:51e9a17c-6233-47b8-a324-d9f964c72ea92015-03-10T17:34:49-05:00Outlawing guns and expecting homocides to become less frequent would be like outlawing K-Y Jelly and expecting rapes to become less frequent.Taking note (Sniper)urn:uuid:88c37845-7bd9-4779-8667-465a83e4ea142015-03-07T17:57:26-06:00I don't listen to Stefan Molyneux all that often, but once in awhile I'll fire up one of his podcasts. And <i>every single time</i> I do, he says something that is a mirror of something I'd recently said to someone, thought, or written about. And no, I doRadicalization in Action (Sniper)urn:uuid:668aa022-9220-4952-bed1-017896a333572015-03-07T15:12:21-06:00My youngest brother is in the twelfth grade at <a href="http://delasalle.com/">DeLaSalle High School</a>, in Minneapolis. A couple of years ago, the school's long-term president died, and the school's management was-- in absolutely incredible fashion and What was old is new (Sniper)urn:uuid:cb42dc2d-09a0-4f5b-aa92-312c3c390dc42015-03-07T11:52:40-06:00I love how technology goes in circles. An example: when 3d accelerators first came out, the various competitors-- S3, Matrox, 3dfx among them-- each had their own proprietary APIs. So when you'd launch a game circa 1997, you'd pick in the game's settings Ayn Rand and Karen Horney (Sniper)urn:uuid:45035673-0dc9-409b-bec8-6161afbd27b32015-03-07T10:03:02-06:00I'm currently reading Karen Horney's "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Neurosis-Human-Growth-Struggle-Self-Realization/dp/0393307751/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425742705&sr=8-1&keywords=karen+horney">Neurosis and Human Growth</a>", and I've noticed huge similaTraining (Sniper)urn:uuid:34d37ee6-54d9-4951-b7c7-23c6bf127a462015-03-06T13:46:11-06:00Sat and watched Minnesota United's training today, was really relaxing and enjoyable.<br><br>
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Most interestingly, Geison Moura and-- of all people-- <i>Andrei Gotsmanov</i> 4DO via Wine (Sniper)urn:uuid:775625cf-99c0-490c-a841-64d51445598a2015-03-02T13:43:32-06:00It's always been a little dream of mine to have 3DO emulation on PC, perhaps even with the level of quality of emulators for other systems, such as <a href="http://www.segaretro.org/Kega_Fusion">Kega Fusion</a> for the Genesis. Well, over the past few yeaStrange philosophy (Sniper)urn:uuid:df053f55-a472-4b34-a7f0-6449e6795acc2015-03-01T14:50:02-06:00There is a guy I work with that only has one, single principle with regards to the notion of government: <i>anything</i> is ok, so long as it's "incremental." "Incrementalism" is the only thing that matters to him, so far as I can discern.<br><br>
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